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Category: Inspirational
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue…[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he is strong…quarrelsomeness. When he is old…covetousness.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
All is flux, nothing stays still.
Nothing endures but change.